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Sun's Desktop for Linux - Sneak Peak |
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5:55 pm EDT, Sep 21, 2003 |
] After spending an evening and morning with the Gnome
] 2.2-based Java Desktop System, I can report that Sun has
] what appears to me to be the most polished and real-world
] user-ready Linux desktop in existence. The pricing is interesting. As a home user I don't want to pay that much recurring, but on the other hand I think it makes sense for software like this to be sold based on a recurring service model. Sun's Desktop for Linux - Sneak Peak |
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LedNews -- Example RSS perl script |
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3:24 am EDT, Sep 18, 2003 |
Someone asked me this morning how to parse the MemeStreams RSS feed. So I present this. This is a simple Perl script which uses XML::RSS to parse the headlines from a number of news sites, including MemeStreams, and post them to a Prolite LED sign. There is a lot more in that RSS object then a title, but hopefully you can use this as a starting point for your projects. LedNews -- Example RSS perl script |
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3d file browser for linux |
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1:38 am EDT, Sep 14, 2003 |
This is the 3d file browser that won the NSF grant... This looks absolutely amazing. I'm going to fire it up on Monday... Jello: Yes, this looks pimp as hell. I'll install it and try it as soon as I get into the office. 3d file browser for linux |
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Science -- 3D file broswer wins NSF contest... |
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8:28 pm EDT, Sep 13, 2003 |
] The three-dimensional interface organizes computer
] contents by their relationships rather than their
] physical position on a hard drive. Each spider-web thread
] marks the ties between folders holding contents related
] to the open file folder (in the center in purple). Colors
] show how the other folders are related: The red folder is
] the parent one, blue folders are subdirectories, and the
] yellow and gray folders are located elsewhere but relate
] somehow to the central folder. Science -- 3D file broswer wins NSF contest... |
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Apple Computer History Weblog : Who Killed Apple Computer? |
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9:41 pm EDT, Sep 12, 2003 |
] Although we successfully forced personal computing to
] move to the graphical interface, since then fundamental
] innovation in personal computing has ground to a stop.
] The operating system most computers users work with every
] day is stuck in 1993, with very little fundamental
] improvement in the last decade. The applications on
] users' desktops, bloated beasts like Word and PowerPoint,
] haven't substantially improved in years.
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] Why? Because they don't have to change. Because
] there's no effective competition. Because Apple failed.
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] Those of us who use Windows every day at work are
] reminded constantly of our company's failure.
] Unfortunately, the rest of the world is being punished
] along with us. Apple Computer History Weblog : Who Killed Apple Computer? |
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Intel Personal Server Research: Mobile Computing In The Palm of Your Hand |
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9:25 pm EDT, Sep 12, 2003 |
Smaller than PDA-class devices and without traditional input/output (I/O) capabilities such as a keyboard or display, the Intel Personal Server concept prototype links wirelessly to existing infrastructure to provide ubiquitous access to personal information and applications. With a focus on miniaturization, Personal Server technology could also integrate into a PDA or cellular phone, extending the capabilities of current consumer electronic devices. The Personal Server concept would enable any computer with a small amount of additional software installed, to perform as if it were the user's own computer. The local computing infrastructure will support the Personal Server not only by providing a display and keyboard, but also by enabling access to other local resources such as printers, the Internet, and high-performance desktop processing. Intel Personal Server Research: Mobile Computing In The Palm of Your Hand |
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Truncat - A New Short Story by Cory Doctorow |
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12:26 pm EDT, Aug 31, 2003 |
What if you could file-share someone's consciousness? Would it be a violation, or the ultimate communication therapy? This story brought a tear to my eye. Truncat - A New Short Story by Cory Doctorow |
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8:29 pm EDT, Aug 29, 2003 |
Anthropologist Christopher Kelty on programmers, networks and information technology Kelty has studied the political economy of information; Free Software; cultural aspects of intellectual property law; reputation, trust and exchange in communities of software programmers; and the history of medicine in America. Kelty teaches classes in science and technology studies, the mechanization of thought processes, the history of memory systems, ... Not all people involved with "hacking" are self-identified hackers. ... Entrepreneurs, visionaries, activists and lawyers are engaged in some of the same social worlds but may not call themselves hackers. In the end, the goal is to investigate the nature of social relations and shared attitudes toward the worlds we live in ... to find what ties people together in a given social world. ... information is not necessarily something that circulates on the Internet. It is something that can be understood socially as existing in a particular time and place through repeated interactions between people. I also talk about the differences between communication networks and social networks and try to give the students a way of thinking about how one might have both a communication network and a social network at the same time. ... areas like this are quite hard for students to get their head around ... I like to focus on banal, boring issues like standards, protocols, and IPR because I delight in showing how supposedly arcane technical problems actually turn out to be political. ... IP rights hand a kind of police power over to private bodies. ... The economic justification for the existence of IP is different from the actual uses to which people put it. Scientists and engineers like to think that the technical and scientific issues can be separated out from the social, sort of fuzzy issues. My claim is that they're heavily tied together. A Whole New Worldview |
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XBOX Dashboard local vulnerability |
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5:37 pm EDT, Jul 4, 2003 |
] The XBOX Dashboard is what appears when you turn the XBOX
] on without a disc in the DVD drive. It will let you
] adjust system settings, manage your save games, play and
] rip audio CDs and configure your XBOX Live account. It is
] the heart of the XBOX and its most vulnerable point,
] because it lacks several security restrictions which are
] enforced on games. This includes the lack of the
] reboot-on-eject-button "feature", which is obligatory for
] all games. ] The existance of an exploitable vulnerability
] within the dashboard could totally compromises the XBOX
] security system. It will make the box independent from
] Microsoft signed code and therefore this information is
] released to the public now on the 4th of July 2003, the
] day of the XBOX Independence. From the Full Disclosure mailing list. XBOX Dashboard local vulnerability |
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